Pith Number

pith:W23ISYML

pith:2015:W23ISYMLTJAN6RSBWSIHTSW6DH

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Effect of source tampering in the security of quantum cryptography

Feihu Xu, Hoi-Kwong Lo, Lin-Mei Liang, Mu-Sheng Jiang, Shi-Hai Sun, Xiang-Chun Ma

arxiv:1508.05258 v1 · 2015-08-21 · quant-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W23ISYMLTJAN6RSBWSIHTSW6DH}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:34:56.282781Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6b689618b9a40df4641b49079cade19e171ca3577df238647faba8b96b5515a

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.05258 · arxiv_version: 1508.05258v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.05258 · pith_short_12: W23ISYMLTJAN · pith_short_16: W23ISYMLTJAN6RSB · pith_short_8: W23ISYML

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/W23ISYMLTJAN6RSBWSIHTSW6DH \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: b6b689618b9a40df4641b49079cade19e171ca3577df238647faba8b96b5515a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f231592677b9fd14cf6f6ff345502a2033fb231d9551cf9aa1ac84e3de4f457a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-21T12:39:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "80425bf3cc6f7246476d3430289cbd8af526f0c7149ae49be949437c179d83b4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.05258",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}